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Federico Varese
Tradecraft : Writers on John le Carré

Regular price £30.00 GBP
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Alison Marsh
Private Lies : True Stories From My Life as a Private Investigator

Regular price £9.99 GBP
Forthcoming, due July

Lee Child
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Forthcoming, due 2027

John Curran
The Murder Game

Regular price £12.99 GBP
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Patricia Cornwell
True Crime : A Memoir

Regular price £25.00 GBP
Mark Aldridge
Agatha Christie’s Marple : Expert on Wickedness

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Tina Hodgkinson
Agatha Christie's London : A Historical Guide to the Queen of Crime's Capital

Regular price £20.00 GBP
Stuart Gibbon and Stephen Wade
Being A Detective

Regular price £11.99 GBP
Stuart Gibbon and Stephen Wade
The Crime Writer's Casebook

Regular price £11.99 GBP
Donna Leon
Backstage : Stories of a Writing Life

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Sara Lodge
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

Regular price £11.99 GBP
Forthcoming, due September

Angela Gallop and Chris Gregg
How to Catch a Killer

Regular price £20.00 GBP
Anne Hart
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple : The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Anne Hart
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot : The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot

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Mary Anna Evans and JC Bernthal
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

Regular price £29.99 GBP
David Suchet
Poirot and Me

Regular price £14.99 GBP
David Suchet
Travels with Agatha Christie

Regular price £30.00 GBP
Stephen King
On Writing

Regular price £22.00 GBP
Lee Child
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories

Regular price £16.99 GBP
Karen Pierce
Recipes for Murder : 66 Dishes That Celebrate the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

Regular price £16.99 GBP
Patricia Wiltshire
The Natural History of Crime

Regular price £10.99 GBP
Maggie Smith
Dear Writer

Regular price £18.99 GBP
Jennifer Morag Henderson
Josephine Tey : A Life

Regular price £19.99 GBP
Henry Sutton
Crafting Crime Fiction

Regular price £14.99 GBP
Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst
Writing the Murder : Essays on Crafting Crime Fiction

Regular price £10.99 GBP
John Curran
The Murder Game

Regular price £20.00 GBP
Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin
King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King

Regular price £21.99 GBP
Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin
King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King

Regular price £88.00 GBP
Caroline Crampton
Agatha Christie’s England

Regular price £12.00 GBP
Stephen King
On Writing

Regular price £10.99 GBP
The Detection Club
Howdunit : A Masterclass in Crime Writing

Regular price £14.99 GBP
Kathryn Harkup
V is for Venom

Regular price £20.00 GBP
Kathryn Harkup
A is for Arsenic

Regular price £11.99 GBP
Gill Plain
Agatha Christie : A Very Short Introduction

Regular price £9.99 GBP
Martin Edwards
The Golden Age of Murder

Regular price £14.99 GBP
Barry Forshaw
Brit Noir

Regular price £8.99 GBP
Barry Forshaw
Crime Fiction : A Reader's Guide

Regular price £26.95 GBP
Barry Forshaw
Simenon : The Man, the Books, the Films

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Stephen Wade
The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers

Regular price £25.00 GBP
Colin Duriez
Dorothy L Sayers: A Biography

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Francesca Wade
Square Haunting

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Laura Thompson
Agatha Christie : A Mysterious Life

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Lynda La Plante
Getting Away With Murder

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Martin Edwards
The Golden Age of Murder

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Martin Edwards
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
British Library Crime Classics

Regular price £25.00 GBP
Martin Edwards
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
British Library Crime Classics

Regular price £14.99 GBP
Patricia Highsmith
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Regular price £12.99 GBP
Rachel McLean
Rachel McLean's Dorset Crime Trail
Dorset Crime

Regular price £29.99 GBP
Rachel McLean
Rachel McLean's Dorset Crime Trail
Dorset Crime

Regular price £9.99 GBP
Mystery Writers of America
How to Write a Mystery

Regular price £8.99 GBP

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